Joseph Braddock wrote:
Okay, I tried my printing and guess what, it no longer prints correctlyMost certainly,
and I can duplicate your problems. This is strange as I have printed
numerous photos since installing 9.0 (download). I do recall doing a
Mandrake Update that did something with cups, gimp and ghostscript. I
don't know if those affected it or not. I'm in the process of trying to
figure it out and will let you know what I find. I am quite sure it is
not a spool problem but probably a driver or cups problem. I'm in the
process of downloading the drivers from Lexmark's site and will bypass
the cups-gimp driver and see if that's it. Www.linuxprinting.org states
that the z53 should work perfectly with the z52 driver, so I'll try
that, too.
If you find anything out, let me know and I'll do likewise. After it's
resolved, maybe we can post it to the list.
Joe
I've tried replacing ghostscript with ghostscript-7.05-30mdk.i586.rpm the latest
version. No improvement at all.
I suspect either kde or cups both to my mind are involved in
the spooling . Take a look at the kde-CC - system - printmanager -
settings - image section, this is new in it's current position as part of
kde, M8.2 did not have this programme here. The only doubt I'm having
in regard to this theory is, if this is right, then why on earth isn't
everone having this problem, so by that reasoning it points to the
drivers itself and there is a new driver called
Lexmark Z53(or Z52),Foomatic+gimp-print-ijs added to
the existing 2 ghostscript drivers of CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.2,
and Foomatic+gimp-print, so obviously there have been
changes with our drivers, no bad thing initself as there were
a few glitches to my certain knowledge, but I believe what ever
is causing the problem is due to a "crossed wire" in the colour
management, in that all red sections of the picture are
coming out blue , and all blue sections of the picture
are coming out red, hense the wobbly image.
I'm pretty certain of that now, just do yourself
a test page and note the piechart colour wheel
actual colours against the testpage demo on screen.
They are all screwed up.
The Z52 and Z53 are practically the same machine, there
isn't much difference, I have both and they work on either
set of drivers just as well normally.
Now, in regards to the Lexmark's own driver , hitherto
I have only got it going once. It works very well when
it does and everything is there including lexmark
printer maintenance, however just downloading the
rpm driver and installing it and then going to MCC
printer control center and choosing that driver does
not make it work , there is additional configuration
which I once got right and was something to do with
symlinking the spooling together , lpq, lpq-cups, lpqr-foomatic,
lpr-kprinter, lprm, lprm-cups, lprm-foomatic, and
some more I cannot remember, I wish you luck
as far as getting any sense out of Lexmark, they
don't really know how it works either. I believe
they merely paid someone in linux to write them a
linux printer programme , and marketed it as such,
but it does not install and work easily.
Having tried the latest ghostsript drivers, I suppose my
next experiment is to see whether a newer version
of cups, but I'm loathed to mess with cups its
such a complicated programme and takes oodles of
detailed knowledge.
For what it's worth I don't think we stand much chance of
getting the linux stuff to work. All we can do is report
things and hope that someone fixes it for us.
John
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